"He continued painting until the end," despite a battle with Parkinsons disease which made it hard to walk and communicate, she added. Botero - who had been dubbed the "Picasso of Latin America ...

A rare painting by the street artist Banksy, inspired by the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, sold for nearly 4.3 million pounds ($5.5 million) Tuesday, according to auction ...

He took up painting in the 1970s, working in an Impressionist style, but it was only in 1987 at the age of 36, after he left his wife, adopted his mother’s maiden name and began to emulate ...

The people have spoken in our second Big Punting Survey. Now a vicar has spoken as well. What he says ought to be heard and heeded by those responsible for the current and future regulation of ...

Twenty-five years ago in Rome, a man lugged a painting in a rubbish bag up a flight of stairs and sold it for $5.5m. The painting was a lavish 17th-century still life by Jan Davidsz de Heem ...

Zedan, who had participated in Sotheby’s auctions on the phone prior to the event, won bids for two pieces, including the oil painting Society Woman by Fernando Botero, for US$1 million ($1.34 million ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...

“Northern Lights,” now open at the Beyeler Foundation, features 74 landscape paintings by Scandinavian and Canadian artists, all made between 1888 and 1937. View from Pyynikki Ridge, Helmi ...

Called “L’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs,” it ran from April to October 1925, attracted 16 million people, and was a celebration of Modernism and Art Deco design. It occupied ...

His work saw parishioners raise £500,000 to restore a hospital near Malindi in Kenya and 50 people being involved in painting, cleaning and putting in new equipment. They also opened St Clement's ...

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